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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.A team of 51精品视频 undergrads captured a silver medal for their 鈥榤olecular movie camera鈥
The ability to measure and record molecular signals in a cell can help researchers better understand its behavior, but current systems are limited and provide only a 鈥渟napshot鈥 of the environment rather than a more informative timeline of cellular events. In an effort to give researchers a complete understanding of event order, a team of 51精品视频 undergraduate students prototyped a frame-by-frame 鈥渧ideo鈥 recording device using bacteria.
The group created this project for the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, an annual synthetic biology research competition in which over 300 teams from around the world design and carry out projects to solve an open research or societal problem. The 51精品视频 undergraduate group received a silver medal for their device titled 鈥淐UTSCENE.鈥
The iGEM team included two Swanson School of Engineering students: Evan Becker, a junior electrical engineering student, and Vivian Hu, a junior bioengineering student. Other team members included Matthew Greenwald, a senior microbiology student; Tucker Pavelek, a junior molecular biology and physics student; Libby Pinto, a sophomore microbiology and political science student; and Zemeng Wei, a senior chemistry student.
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Pictured, from left: Matthew Greenwald, Vivian Hu, Zemeng Wei and Evan Becker